GRE and PF problem

compunction compunction at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 05:31:37 GMT 2005


GRE needs to pass bidirectional.  You will need a binat to make it
work.  I have not found a firewall that will allow GRE to work with a
many to one nat.

-Mark

On 7/13/05, Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil at webmail.sub.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD (5.3-RELEASE-p5) as internet access server, and I have
> to NAT GRE packets. I'm using pf.
> 
> The problem is that SOMETIMES PF fails to create proper rule using nat,
> while binat works fine.
> 
> Not only I do not want to expose Windows boxes (even if those addresses
> are firewalled), but it's also a terrible waste of real IPs.
> 
> Can anyone point me if I have incorrect PF config, or PF just work
> poorly with gre?
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
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